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‘It gets better’: Olympic president’s advice for bullying victims

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‘It gets better’: Olympic president’s advice for bullying victims

Tell bullies to ‘sod off’. That’s the advice IOC President Kirsty Coventry has for young athletes facing bullying. She spoke to Al Jazeera ahead of the Youth Olympics in Senegal, where she reflected on her own experience as a young athlete.